Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-07-21

| LACROSSE and Walnut city are GER
tainly acting in a reprehensible man
ner in going to the extremes they do
in their county-seat fight. The other
| day man went into Lacrosse to post
some bills, advertising show at wal
nut City, when a mob gathered to-
gether and drummed him out OF town.
tearing down his bills and acting other
wise like set of anarchists. Such ac-
ton as this will never benefit the town
no matter whether they get the county
seat or not.
| THE secretary of the state board
of agriculture says that Kansas VIII
need all the wheat grown in the state
for home consumption. This is doubt
less true, and if farmers will hold onto
| their surplus, and not rush 1t into
market as soon as threshed they can
rest assured that they will get better
prices for their product right here at
home than by selling to eastern mar
kets.
WALNUT CITY and La Crosse are
still fighting bitterly over the county
seat question. La Crosse wants to call
another election, but Walnut City IS
not yet ready for it, and it appears
that each town is resorting to question
able means to carry its point. This
state of affairs is to be. deplored, and
we hope for the good of our neighbors
the warfare will soon be over.
ST.. LOUIS comes up smiling serenity
and announces that her claim as
summer resort grows stronger as the
season advances. Last Sunday the
thermometer registered 104 in the
shade with fair prospects OF better
record hereafter. Great Bend has not
succeeded in making record that will
compare with st. Louis this year, as
So is our ne plotS ultra so far.
RALPH EAsLEY, of the Hutchinson
Ne,Cs. wants an Arkansas Valley Edl-
torial Association. We're in. We be-
lieve the newspapers of the Valley
have done enough hard work to entitle
them to little fun on the side, to say
nothing of the benefits to be derived
from such d gathering together of
great minds as there would be.
IT APPEARS that the Lyons water
works are not equal to the present hot
weather. Some fault lies in the wells
from which they get their water sup
ply, and as the private wells through
out the city are giving out, the people
are getting in bad way for one of the
great essentials of health and cleanli-
ness.
a CELEBRATION concentrating the
centennial anniversary of the cOnStitu-
ton will be held in September next in
Philadelphia. 1t is proposed to make
it the grandest pageant ever witnessed
on the American continent. All the
states should cooperate with Phila-
delphia.
n YOUNG man in Dodge City has
been sued for the recovery of $500
given to him for electiOneering pur-
poses in 1885. In our opinion each
party to the suit should be assessed a
good round sum for school purposes,
by the court.
TERRIBLE storms are reported from
New York, Baltimore and other sea-
port towns yesterday. Numerous small
boats were overturned, and on land
trees We're torn up, houses unrOofed
and struck by lightning.
The Lyons gas company are now
all ready for operations and expect by
the 1st of September to be down into
mother earth to Il depth of $500 feet,
if they don't strike gas sooner.
HEAVY rams are reported from Stat
ford county on the south, and from
Junction City on the north. From all
indications, quite a general rain has
visited the entire state.